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William L. Tyler
Published: May 13, 2008
When I read Mr. Bradish’s April 29 letter, I was surprised that he had used another person’s quotation. Namely “What are we going to do about the foreigners trespassing in our country.” I believe that statement came from Geronimo or Sitting Bull; maybe Powatan.
Someone please tell me in what year the Mexican government came to Virginia and forced DMV to give exams in English and Spanish. Likewise forms for hospitals, schools, social services, etc, that
Virginia was forced to print in two languages. As for immigrants taking jobs; the truth is that big business sent the good jobs overseas years ago.
My sneakers are made in Vietnam, boxers in Dominican Republic, shorts in India, t-shirt in Honduras; etc. Many textile factories sit idle in the South and people are having to take jobs at less pay. On a
recent trip to the drug store to pick up some Dr. Scholls foot pads and a small roll of 3M Scotch tape, I found that both are now made in China.
If Mr. Stewart had come around with his proposal 20 years ago, it would have made more sense.Oh! I forgot, Mr. Stewart has only been around six or seven years.
Mr. Stewart wants to arouse the populace to advance his own political goals.
If George W. Bush worried more about the Mexican border , and less about the Iranian border, a lot of the problems would have been avoided.
WILLIAM L. TYLER
Manassas
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Posted by ( Godsaveus ) on May 17, 2008 at 1:10 am
willow703. The BOS approve a resolution precisely to enforce existing laws, the 287(g) is not a creation or duplication it is an existing law. To deny services or benefits to undocumented is not a duplicity and also is not new.
United States is not going to be the most industrialized country in the world anymore., industrialization in this country is par of the past , the jobs we lost for the globalization never are going to come back industrialization is a boom in others countries mostly in Asia because the cheap labor and other condition that allow to cut cost in the production process . We are going to continue importing more products than we export, it doest not mean that we are going to close all our factories, we are to keep open the ones where require highly specialized labor, or the ones that produce woods where the cost of the labor is not a main part of the final cost of the product and mostly for local market. Toyota is investing in new assembly plants because for them is cheaper than produce overseas, but they are not going to export any single car to foreign markets.
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Posted by ( phdee ) on May 16, 2008 at 8:56 pm
ZCX; “necessary job”? Usually manual labor tyoes, such as picking fruits/vegs, working on farms, gutting hogs, processing poultry, construction, landscaping, road work, cleaning houses and buildings, sales work, etc. I’m surprised you didn’t know. Most Americans don’t want tHese jobs. Americans prefer “fluff” jobs, talking on cell -phones, video games, shopping,etc. - the type that add very little to the economy.
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on May 16, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Godsaveus,
Mr. Stewart did not do what he was supposed to do! What he was supposed to direct the
Prince William County government to enforce “existing” federal law. Instead, he chose to duplicate federal law, thereby padding his political resume`.
Your last paragraph makes no sense. Toyota is planning a new auto plant, apparently they feel they can afford the high wages. However, US law firms are now outsourcing legal research to lawyers in India, and Wall Street stock brokers are making huge sums of money from your misery at the gas pump. I’d like to see Mr. Stewart & company try to
outsource the $2 million lawn mowing job they have on their hands. Sounds like a job for some illegal aliens.
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Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 16, 2008 at 2:15 am
Phdee what are these “necessary jobs” you speak of? Ray the construction industry already has many out of control construction projects going. There is no need for any more extra housing in PWC for one and more than enough commercial projects as well. Too many available houses now. Chris Cummings
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 15, 2008 at 10:53 am
Chris, it’s only related to amnesty if the politicians make it permanent. Feel free to form a PAC to lobby your elected representative to prevent that. A one year, two year program to provide time to find, develop OR correct the system currently in place. This provides tax dollars, security enhancement and provides time for people to become legal or prepare to return home. BUT, it all starts with controlling the border. Then again, your system of doing nothing may work also. We’ll see when the housing market comes back and the immigrants return to work the construction jobs. Again, no illegals living 30 to a house in my neighborhood.
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Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 15, 2008 at 2:35 am
Phdee i never said the world was perfect and a fence won’t stop everyone, but with proper worplace enforcement and police enforcing laws already on the books, and politicians enforcing the laws on the books as well, withholding of taxpayer dollars from “sanctuary cities”, employers who exploit people for slave wages are evil and those who hire illegals for decent wages are criminal as well. Why not hire a legal immigrant instead? Sorry Ray i don’t have any Karl Rove or Swift boating tricks for you, just many volumes of evidence to refute almost everything you say here as well as Phdee. As for your Documented Illegal Program i hate to lambaste it for being a poor version of Amnesty but it is. Chris Cummings
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Posted by ( phdee ) on May 14, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Ray, I agree with you regarding the resolution. I take the position that 12 million illegals supposedly are here, and it just isn’t feasible to deport them. Some of the illegals hold necessary job for our economy, and I know they pay taxes. I don’t know the answsr to the problem, but something fair and sensible should be worke out.
The Salvadorans next to me moved last year - place is in foreclosure. They were as good a neighbor as you’d find. Another hispanic familyacross the street “moved”, and that house supposedly is in foreclosure. I have had no problems with hispanics or oither people for that matter. There are some vacant/auction/foreclosed houses however. Don’t know the ex-residents, their storIes, plight, etc. however.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 14, 2008 at 6:29 pm
phdee, if the Resolutionists really wanted to have security in our community, to collect payroll taxes to offset social burdens from undocumented workers, to know the driver behind the wheel is licensed and insured - they would support the Documented Illegal Program as I’ve suggested many times. But they don’t REALLY want to solve the problem unless perhaps it is on their terms. But will their terms work? Not without funding for border security et al. But alas, they still stand on the milk crate and shout at the top of their lungs and refuse to consider any other suggestions. phdee, do you have a problem with illegals in your neighborhood? I don’t.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 14, 2008 at 6:18 pm
zcx says “so phdee, what is your solution to the problem”. Boy, I wish zcx would ask ME that question because I would fill pages with OPTIONS to standing on a milk crate and shouting Rule of Law. But then zcx would reach back into his bag of Karl Rove tactics and start swift-boating opponents of the Resolution, so I guess a question best left unasked.
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Posted by ( phdee ) on May 14, 2008 at 3:11 pm
ZCX: the world is imperfect, and there will always be those who violate laws, no matter how many passed. Thus, to answer your question, I think businesses should be licensed, and tax witholdings made - when hiring legals or illegals. There still will be violators, I admit.—The borders are porous because the US needs the migrants/immigrants - at least for some occupations. It’s part of the “business exploitation” game. Building walls, as history shows, never works. A person so desiring will just go around it or over. People have the desire to live and survive it’s human nature, and it makes worker exploitation easy.
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